BladeCenter Lives!
2006-01-20
James and I assembled all the blades, adding memory, drives, cpus and fiber-channel controllers, on Wednesday. Yesterday James and Stuart assembled the storage arrays and hooked them up. This morning our 220 VAC power distribution units arrived and we were able to power up the BladeCenter. Yay!
Stuart booted each blade and updated it’s firmware, and I booted each blade and created a RAID0 array on each blade’s pair of on-board SCSI disks. We will most likely be booting from the on-board disks, and storing all the virtual machines and data on the SAN.
I finished writing the security policy, which Ed made a prerequisite of me getting to start working on the BladeCenter, so next week I get to start adding operating systems to the blades.
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